07-13-2011, 04:12 PM
[quote name='joachim' timestamp='1310570882' post='9975']
It is as Klaus describes on my Lumix TZ-3. Mode 1 runs all the time, to stabilise the viewer image, mode 2 just starts before picture taking. If you use a Panasonic OIS lens on a Olympus mFT camera, you only get mode 1. [/quote]
Mode 2 is activated when you press the shutter release, which moves according to Panasonic the "OIS lens block" more quickly into position and "offers a greater degree of image stabilization". Mode 1 is simply OIS always "on", it´s basically a mode for video. However, mode 1 kind of freezes the image on the display, which may help framing/focusing when you shake badly (convenience...), but for image stabilization when taking stills it is definitely inferior to mode 2 regardless of eventual claims to the contrary somewhere on the web. Now, compared to the GH2 Pana has taken out some of the more advanced video features but kept the OIS mode for video while killing the OIS mode for stills. Profoundly unsound thinking IMHO.
https://panasonic.ca/english/audiovideo/...egaOIS.asp
It is as Klaus describes on my Lumix TZ-3. Mode 1 runs all the time, to stabilise the viewer image, mode 2 just starts before picture taking. If you use a Panasonic OIS lens on a Olympus mFT camera, you only get mode 1. [/quote]
Mode 2 is activated when you press the shutter release, which moves according to Panasonic the "OIS lens block" more quickly into position and "offers a greater degree of image stabilization". Mode 1 is simply OIS always "on", it´s basically a mode for video. However, mode 1 kind of freezes the image on the display, which may help framing/focusing when you shake badly (convenience...), but for image stabilization when taking stills it is definitely inferior to mode 2 regardless of eventual claims to the contrary somewhere on the web. Now, compared to the GH2 Pana has taken out some of the more advanced video features but kept the OIS mode for video while killing the OIS mode for stills. Profoundly unsound thinking IMHO.
https://panasonic.ca/english/audiovideo/...egaOIS.asp